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This page has 14 definitions of bread in English, Middle English, and Spanish, Castilian. Bread is a noun and verb. Examples of how to use bread in a sentence are shown. Also define these 0 related words and terms: .

English bread definition

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Pronunciation
Two loaves of bread (1).

Etymology 1

From Middle English bred, breed, from Old English brēad (“fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”), from Proto-Germanic *braudą (“cooked food, leavened bread”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrew- (“to boil, seethe”) (see brew). Alternatively, from Proto-Germanic *braudaz, *brauþaz (“broken piece, fragment”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰera- (“to split, beat, hew, struggle”) (see brittle). Perhaps a conflation of the two.

Cognate with Scots breid (“bread”), Saterland Frisian Brad (“bread”), West Frisian brea (“bread”), Dutch brood (“bread”), German Brot (“bread”), Danish and Norwegian brød (“bread”), Swedish bröd (“bread”), Icelandic brauð (“bread”), Albanian brydh (“I make crumbly, friable, soft”), Latin frustum (“crumb”).

Eclipsed non-native Middle English payn (“bread”), borrowed from Old French pain (“bread”).

Noun

bread (countable and uncountable, plural breads)

  1. (uncountable)
    1. A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
      We made sandwiches with the bread we bought from the bakery.
      Any leftover bread can be put into the pudding.
    2. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
  2. (countable) Any variety of bread.
  3. (slang, US) Money.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:money
    • 1967, “San Franciscan Nights”, in Winds of Change, performed by Eric Burdon & The Animals:
      […] save up all your bread, and fly Trans-Love Airways to San Francisco, USA.
    • 1973, Billy Joel (lyrics and music), “Piano Man”, performed by Billy Joel:
      And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar / And say, "Man, what are you doing here?"
    • 2005, Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, and Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), “Stay Fly”, in Most Known Unknown‎[1], Sony BMG, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG):
      Tastes like fruit when you hit it; got to have bread to get it.
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Verb

bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)

  1. (transitive) To coat with breadcrumbs.
    breaded fish
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Etymology 2

From Middle English brede (“breadth, width, extent”), from Old English brǣdu (“breadth, width, extent”), from Proto-Germanic *braidį̄ (“breadth”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid (“breadth”), Dutch breedte (“breadth”), German Breite (“breadth”), Swedish bredd (“breadth”), Icelandic breidd (“breadth”).

Noun

bread (plural breads)

  1. (obsolete or UK dialectal, Scotland) Breadth.
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Etymology 3

From Middle English breden (“to spread”), from Old English brǣdan (“to make broad, extend, spread, stretch out; be extended, rise, grow”), from Proto-Germanic *braidijaną (“to make broad, broaden”).

Verb

bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)

  1. (transitive, dialectal) To make broad; spread.[1]

References

  1. ^ 1674, John Ray, A Collection of English Words Not Generally Used

Etymology 4

Variant of braid, from Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan, breġdan (“to braid”).

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Verb

bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)

  1. (transitive) To form in meshes; net.

Noun

bread (plural breads)

  1. A piece of embroidery; a braid.

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Middle English bread definition

Noun

bread

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of bred (“bread”)

Old English bread definition

Alternative forms

  • brēod

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *braudą, whence also Old Frisian brād (West Frisian brea), Old Saxon brōd (German Low German Broot, Brot), Dutch brood, Old High German brōt (German Brot), Old Norse brauð and Icelandic brauð (Swedish bröd).

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Noun

brēad n (nominative plural brēadru) (rare, chiefly Anglian)

  1. bit, piece, morsel, crumb
  2. bread (foodstuff)

Declension

Declension of bread
Case Singular Plural
nominative brēad brēadru
accusative brēad brēadru
genitive brēades brēada
dative brēade brēadum

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Spanish bread definition

Verb

bread

  1. second-person plural imperative of brear
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